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Jennifer Croft

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Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey, the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick and the 2018 International Booker Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is also the translator of Federico Falco’s A Perfect Cemetery, Romina Paula’s August, Pedro Mairal’s The Woman from Uruguay, and Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob (a finalist for the Kirkus Prize). In 2023, she received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her husband and twins.

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Jennifer Croft Yes! All of the photographs (both color and black and white) come from my travels around Argentina, Europe and Uzbekistan over the past fifteen years.…moreYes! All of the photographs (both color and black and white) come from my travels around Argentina, Europe and Uzbekistan over the past fifteen years. The only exceptions are a few childhood pictures of my sister Anne Marie and me, which were taken by our mom. (less)
Jennifer Croft Thank you so much for reading it! I loved Robert's translation. The only thing we really worked on together was the Polish title, which I wanted him t…moreThank you so much for reading it! I loved Robert's translation. The only thing we really worked on together was the Polish title, which I wanted him to choose rather than trying to find an equivalent or just keep the English word "homesick." In any case, he was great, and I felt lucky to get to do this book with him.(less)
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Flights

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The Woman from Uruguay

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The Books of Jacob

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The Extinction of Irena Rey

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Homesick

3.76 avg rating — 2,169 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions
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What Feelings Do When No On...

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August

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Dislocations

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A Perfect Cemetery

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Two Sherpas

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“We were book people. We had yet to truly concern ourselves with earth.”
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“wasn’t the suffering that existed in nature unbearable as well? And wasn’t it understandable that people tried to escape an endless cycle of oblivion and pain?”
Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

“Sometimes we must create the community we wish to protect,”
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